Vectorized paragraph/text stroke disappear

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November 17, 2025
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Hello everyone!

After some research I haven't found a real answer to my issue and I am sure there should be one.

I am currently working in a pipeline with a team where we layout packaging faces in indesign before copy/pasting it to illustrator tracings from the printer/manufacturer.

The issue is that on our layout we have paragraph/texte strokes, bullet points and fonts needs to be vectorized on the illustrator file. Everything works –bullet points are a bit tricky but it is manageable– aside from the paragraph strokes who dissapear once we hit the vectorized command.

As we have paragraph styles and paragraph strokes setting, spacing, offset, etc. Regular strokes are not an option. We have too much files and faces to deal with it manually.

Therefore here is my question: Is there a clear solution to have text/paragraph strokes vectorized ?

Thank you very much
Have a nice day!

Correct answer BobLevine

The answer stands. Do it in Acrobat.

BobLevine

Community Expert

Why not just do it in Illustrator?

That obvious question out of the way, the only "right" way to do this is to export a PDF from InDesign and open that in Acrobat. Use the tools there to outline the text.

Ernesto_CHAuthor

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Thanks for your quick answer
Everything was done on indesign since it's easier to manage text editing and unfortunately we won't and can not challenge the workflow, which works great –apart from this issue.

Ernesto_CHAuthor

Participating Frequently

You insists in a errtive workflow.

Do it in Acrobat Pro.

Hello
What's erratic in using a tool designed to manage text the best way possible?

Illustrator can't manage masters, baseline grids, margin & columns, among other thing we need, the same way indesign does. (I love illustrator for many other things but for this, InDesign is the tool that suits me best.)

I simply asked a question because we want to use indesign to its fullest with the features it offers. And because we, at the office, found it weird that the pargraph stroke features can not be converted to a stroke or shape.

There is no need to patronise people. I just wanted to know more about the tools I use.

Anyway thank you both for your answers. I am now aware that there is no solution inside inDesign.

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